This all began several years ago when I was taking a New Media class and was introduced to the toy, Zounds, made by the now out of business company, Zizzle. I was inthralled by this toy at first, it has the aura of magic about it and is such a simple and elegant way to play with music

I recently made a little Lightbox to be able to take better pictures of my Etsy stuff for sale. Here are some test photos from last night.

click to create an expanding circle, click to create a second before the first gets too big. press the anykey to undo a placement

I’ve tried this a couple times before, but I haven’t done it seriously before. I am learning the Processing programming language. I’ve got a copy of Learning Processing, by Daniel Shiffman (ITP faculty), and I’ve made my first dynamic java applet. Though these

It’s been a busy summer for me. Lots of playing outside, lots of working. There was a month and a half where I didn’t even open the door to my shop just because all my time was already allotted. I’m finally starting to spend a little more time with the lathe and torc

I recently acquired a new bicycle for my main mode of transportation. It’s a Kogswell frame, you could reference the Spring 2010 issue of Bicycle Quarterly to get the specifics for its frame geometry and front-end angles and characteristics, as it is the 700c test bike that they

Look familiar? I’m playing with taillight designs in Solidworks. Direct inspiration, obviously Luxor. I don’t really like the flat end on it, so we’ll think a little about attachment possibilities for a secondary bulbous acrylic lens to diffuse and create side-visibi

I’ve been working with some Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software called SolidWorks trying to get together some possible design ideas for a headlight housing that I could send to a CNC shop to have manufactured. 3d modeling is really fun. These are some mockup i